Spinoffs

SCV (Slug Crawler Vehicle) from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan:

PETMAN by Boston Dynamics (Dedicated to the Science and Art of How Things Move):

Mimesis by KIST’s Center for Intelligent Robotics:

Mimesis by Alexander Vishnevskiy:

Bio & biomimetics
Onicoforo cazando luciernagas

iRobot’s Soft Morphing Blob – forward to 1:50 to see this phenotype in action:

Anthropomimetic
ECCEROBOT

scientists hope in the future to use ECCEROBOT‘s human-like form to “explore human-like cognitive features,”

& Shimon the electric boogiemen:

futureboogie down production with a droid of Scott la Rock is in queue

If robot evolution should mirror the evolution of life this coeval is
definately too relaxed for Hans Moravecs predictions:

a summary of Hans Moravecs educated predictions for the future of robotics
up until they can do everything we can do can be found here

While Super Mario‘s princess is in another castle Robert Miles met his Princess pretty much down on earth:

forward to 0:30min to encounter her & listen here to Tony E‘s Radio Show ‘Space Plane‘ to get to know more about Robert Miles contacts.

BTW the Queen that ruled the arctic the last thousand years is illustrated here by Robert Gibson Jones

from the Fantastic Adventures v11 #11 Novembre 1949 shown at the ‘Polemics’ exhibition at the Maison d’Ailleurs